A Special Grand Jury has convened in Loudoun County to investigate how the school system handled two sexual assaults in two high schools last year.
From wtop.com:
According to Virginia code, a special grand jury should be empaneled when a regular grand jury finds probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed that a special grand jury should hear.
This appears to be the result of an investigation that Attorney General Jason Miyares launched in January after the new Governor asked for such an inquiry on his first day in office. AG Miyares:
Loudoun County Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additional assault of a young girl, he said in a statement. Virginians have dealt with the horrific aftermath of these scandals, without understanding how or why they were able to happen. Virginians deserve answers they want transparency and accountability.
In a statement Loudoun County schools spokesman Wayde Byard said FCPS leaders are aware that a Grand Jury has been convened and he added the school system:
intends to cooperate with the lawful requests of the special grand jury, while protecting the privacy rights of our students to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with all applicable legal privileges.
Call me cynical but that sounds like they will use anything they can to not give the Grand Jury what they need to fully investigate these very serious sexual assaults. Superintendent of Schools, Scott Ziegler, should have resigned last year when the mishandling of these assaults was first reported.
More on this story here and here.
In other Loudoun County news, it comes as no surprise that the School Board has issued a statement opposing Governor Youngkin’s amendment to move up their elections to this November:
“The Loudoun County School Board opposes Governor Youngkins amendment to change the date of the elections for the entire Loudoun County School Board to November 8, 2022. Governor Youngkins proposed amendment seeks to undo a fair and free election in which members of the Loudoun County School Board were chosen by the people of Loudoun County to represent them on the School Board for four years. The proposed Governors amendment sets a precedent through which any Governor, with the approval of the General Assembly, could shorten the legally defined terms of any elected local public body chosen by its citizens with whom they disagreed or simply disliked. Such amendments would negate the wishes of the people who elected their local representatives and force the people of Loudoun County to hold an unnecessary election on short notice, and would ultimately hinder the operations of the School Board and school division in effectively serving its students.” (More information on this story at the above links.)
The parents and taxpayers of Loudoun County deserve a school board that represents their interests. With the exception of the Catoctin district representative, John Beatty, this board does not. It’s time to ‘throw the bums out”. We need to let our state senators know we want that to happen in November with a school board election.
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Maybe Scott Ziegler will get mishandled when he goes to jail.
It would be nice to have a special investigation into both of the Democrat/McAuliffe Race Baiting Tiki Torch Stunts
I guess this begs the question.. won’t the liberal idiots who voted these liberal idiots to the stupid school board just re-elect them? Like that slimy turd Gavin Newsome. A lot of effort and the kind of liberals you have there in Lowdown county are California style douchewads… and they’ll just vote them back in. I don’t hold out hope for your county or Fairfax.
Between the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, hobbling domestic energy production, rampant inflation following a tsunami of stimmies, politicized pandemic ‘science,’ and dismal approval ratings that reflect the entire quagmire, left-wing strategists are predicting doom for Democrats come midterms.
Biden Boom!!! Erica!!!!
“In other Loudoun County news, it comes as no surprise that the School Board has issued a statement opposing Governor Youngkins amendment to move up their elections to this November:”
Yeah, O doubt it is legal.
I edited out your nasty language about our Governor. Why do Democrats persist in calling people names and using foul language?
Of course, it’s legal if the General Assembly passes it and the Governor signs it into law.
You need to ban him. He has said F you to your authors many times. I have said F you to him and Erica, but he is attacking your authors. There is no place here for the likes of Eric and Johnny Dunderhead… they want free speech here but their people are hell bent on banning everything that they disagree with. So they get to go here too.
To wit: Hunter’s laptop. It outlined the family corruption and influence business. And it was banned. That is very serious.
So adios Johnny and Erica, pronoun She It.
Why do Democrats persist in calling people names and using foul language?
I did not know Joker is a Democrat, Jeanine!! Wow, that is quite the revelation
Hey Erica..pronoun She It…
As US Attorney David Weiss leads a long line of witnesses before a grand jury, Washington is preparing for the possibility of an indictment of the son of President Joe Biden, Hunter. This has led to a nosebleed of a turn for the media, as major outlets suddenly acknowledge that the story that they tried to kill in 2020 is in fact legitimate.
What I say doesn’t matter in the scheme of things… Your opinion is as useless… but here is your media…
What do you think Erica? Why are they turning on the big guy now? They could have easily just ignored the story about the Bribem crime family and also… The corrupt and foul DOJ is attempting to prosecute him? That would NOT happen if the Powers that control the stick up Bribem’s fundament weren’t ready to dump him… He’s too dopey and things are going south… Adios Bribem crime syndicate.
And you and Jonny Dunghead can of course…